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Toastmasters speech ‘On the Perils of Writing a Book’
Here is a Toastmasters speech I gave last night — On the perils of writing a book There is no greater crap-shoot than writing a book. I know. I wrote one. But why? Why did I bother? I ask myself that...
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Worst job in the world: Monitoring Glenn Beck
Now here is a job no sane person should ever accept … “Starting today,” writes Jason Linkins in the Huffington Post, “we are going to be turning our attention to Glenn Beck and his outrageous...
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Is chess a sport?
“There is the odd country where there’s some lingering doubt whether chess is art or sport. Quite clearly it is a sport.” — Viswanathan Anand, the number one-ranked chess player in the world and the...
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Disinfectant: travelers don’t leave home without it
Used to be you travelled to find new experiences in new places. That often mean discomfort and risk, part of the excitement of the adventure. Now it’s all about rest and relaxation on a beach (64%) in...
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Pitched Battle Over Books!
We’ve all tramped into a store anxious to get in and get out only to be delayed by a clerk taking a phone call from a potential customer at home on her couch. Makes the blood boil. But so would this....
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Why doesn’t Charlie Rose twitter who his guests will be?
Jeez, isn’t it tailor-made? He’s on every weeknight. Half the time I don’t care. But the other half? I’d love to watch. So what am I supposed to do? Tune to see if I’m interested on who he’s got on?...
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Market survey: do you care that I murdered 48 people with my crack pipe?
The ‘Image is Everything’ guy ex-tennis player Andre Agassi apparently admits in a new book that he took crack. Ex-wrestler Hulk Hogan (with his lawyer!) was on Larry King last night unraveling his...
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Oasis of the Seas — Schadenfreude watch
Good news for those who get a kick out of watching two porches collide: the world’s largest cruise ship, the $1.5 billion, 20 story behemoth Oasis of the Seas (OOTS) — five times larger than the...
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DVR increases viewership
An increasing number of viewers are choosing to watch TV via DVR playback. While the increase is small, a 1% overall in crease from the live program, DVR is significantly adding to the number of people...
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Palin nixes ‘Washington Read’
It hits the stands, you buy it, you immediately flip to the index: am I listed? Am I in her book? There will be no sneak preview in Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue. There is no index; there can be no...
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